Quote by Daniel Yergin Download Open image ““It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1”” — Daniel Yergin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.” — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We came home because we were failures … we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.” — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression.” — Mary Frances Cusack Copy Share Image
“Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.” — Sally MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record,” — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
